Omaha daily bee., 1887-12-17

that the republican party was founded upon
principles of liberty, qualified by law and the
good order of society, these associated with
clubs cannot fail to continue the war against
these trplets Of barbarism till they are
buried in the grave, where slavery sleeps
eternally.
While these delegates were preparing TO
assemble in council for their patriotic work
rs dutiful citizens, they and all their country
men were astounded by message from the
democratic chief magistrate of the United
States, which abandoned all precedents of
his predecessors The constitution requires
him to give congress information of the state
or the union. Every president from Wash
ington to Arthur has annually performed
this duty with dignity. This president has
descended so far from their practice as to
allow himself to convert this constitutional
duty into partisan speech for the complete
overthrow of the policy recommended by the
founders of the government and especially
endorsed by his earliest predecessors III Of
flee. We therefore call the attention of our
countrymen to the facts of their own recent
history under the influence of policy of pro-
lection.
Statistics are then quoted going to show
the large increase In the prosperity and
growth of the country in all ways since 1861
under protective policy.
We, therefore, appealing to the foregoing
history of the republican party aud that of
the country identified with it, make the fol-
lowing declarations:
We emphatically refuse to abandon the
policy of home protection on which our unex-
ampled national prosperity and progress are
founded. The effect Of the democratic policy
would be disastrous by transferring many of
or industries to England and robbing our
working people of their employment and
wages, for the benefit of British manufactur
ers by exhausting our accumulated capital in
payment of foreign debts incurred for i'm
ported merchandise, and by damaging the
entire system of an industrial and CONNER
cial intercourse.
We protest against it in the name of all
American labor and enterprise.
We recognize in the message of the head of
the democratic party Il tender to the country
of choice between supporting the laborers
and industries of Great Britain and Europe
generally on the one hand and on the other
the support of the lnboring men and indus
trial enterprises of America.
We respectfully decline the former, which
he recommends, and will stand By our people
when we elect president.
The principle of protection is founded upon
the interests of the entire country, its su-
premc object to render America independent
Of Europe, to render the United
States selfsustaining; to keep our
money at home ann give employment to our
own working people; to substitute home
competition for foreign; to build up towns
and villages; to encourage agriculture and
| enhance the value of farms; to provide home
markets for the farmer; to adopt our manu-
factures to our domestic wants; to promote
the opening of rapid and cheap communica-
tiOn between the states and territories; to
open mines and1 develop all the vast re
sources of our country, so richly blessed of
| good, in all that is needed to make party
great, contcnted and happy.
While the republican party has since the
war repeatedly cut down taxation and has
uniform, when in power, kept the surplus
within safe limits, the democracy have
shown themselves incompetent for either
duty and by persistently refusing any re-
duction OF taxes unless coupled with
destructive assault on American industries,
are responsible for the accumulation of the
existing surplus and all the dangers it in
wolves We believe that only the restoration
of republican supremacy can give assurance
of unity, reduced taxes, revised tariff and
| limited surplus with the preservation of a
| policy which alone saves us from becoming
the commercial slaves of Europe.
The continued refusal of the democratic
house of representatives to admit territories
having population If high character and in
telligence, exceeding in number that of sew
eral states of the union, old and new, should
arouse the indignation of all true Americans
who believe in home rule and constitutional
rights.
We condemn the hostility of the democratic
party in the house of representatives 10 al
means for the advancement of broad, popu-
lar education, and denounce its arbitrary
!! conduct in thwarting every effort to consider
| any measure far this purpose.
Reviving no past isslfcs, we insist as the
living question and indispensable bulwark of
national security, upon IL free, honest ballot
and fair count in all states of the union.
We charge the democratic party with fail
| ing to provide out of the abundant resources
of the nation for the upbuilding Of g more
efficient navy for the protection of our de-
| fenseless seacoast, for the restoration of our
commercial marinc-so essential to the train
ing Of American seamcu and to the extension
now of American trade, and we urge the ne
cessity of prompt and energetic measures for
those important objects.
We charge the democratic administration
with culpable weakness in guarding Ameri-
can industries and individual rights on the
| high seas and in foreign lands, while the YES
sells and property of our citizens have been
seized and sacrificed in foreign ports, and in
formation of what they were justly entitled
to under our treaties withheld from them or
| made dependent on foreign interpretations,
and we demand more vigorous assertion of
American craftsmanship which shall restore
the respect once accorded to the just de-
mands of our republic.
We charge the democratic party with
being recreant to the republic and the pledges
of the president of prOstituting the civil SER
vice TO partisan purposes We hold that
those professed friends of civil service re-
form who accept and follow this faithless
action in preference to the party which
placed the civil service law on the statute
books. are themselves untrue to their pro-
fessions. We condemn any backward steps
in this reform and all hypocrisy in its ad-
We charge the democratic administration
with tramplng upon the Just claims of the
soldiers of the republic and with reopening
accepted sentiments Of deplOrable sectional
strife by removing the cmblems of such strife
from the place where they quietly repose in
the archives of the nation and yielding only
after the indignant protests OF the American
people,
Upon this history and these declarations
confidently summon to aid not only